UPAYA: Rohatsu 2015 Talks 1-6 : Miracle of Each Moment

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UPAYA: Rohatsu 2015 Talks 1-6 : Miracle of Each Moment

Living with Difference: Community, Diversity and the Common Good

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Living with Difference: Community, Diversity and the Common Good

The report of the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, convened by the Woolf Institute and chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss.
It is titled "Living with Difference: Community, Diversity and the Common Good".

Invented Religions

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/podcast-carole-cusack-on-invented-religions/

Invented Religions

What is an “Invented Religion”? Why should scholars take these religions seriously? What makes these “inventions” different from the revelations in other religions? What happens when an author does not want their story to become a religious text?

HuffPost: Is There Anything Spiritual About Mindfulness?

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Is There Anything Spiritual About Mindfulness?

These days mindfulness is the buzzword. Celebrities such as Goldie Hawn, Richard Gere and Tina Turner have been some of it's strongest proponents. Mindfulness seems to be embraced in the west, more as a practice and discipline rather than as a religion, although its origin is in Buddhism. But does mindfulness have a spiritual and transformational quality to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUENu4o-fM

Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Mahayana Buddhism and Trauma

Harvard Divinity School

Published on Jun 22, 2015

Trauma & Contemplative Practice: Exploring the Territory took place at Harvard Divinity School on May 1–2, 2015.

BBC Radio 4: The Buddha: Waking India Up

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The Buddha: Waking India Up

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

Over the course of 50 episodes, Sunil Khilnani, director of the King's India Institute in London, takes listeners on a whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the prism of the life

University of the West (LA) : Spring 2015 Lecture Series

University of the West (LA) : Spring 2015 Lecture Series

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXAGHVGP8fk
 Buddhism Faces the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities, "The Revival and Rapid Growth of Buddhism in the last Decades of the 20th Century." Given at University of the West

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1dZS2fcK4
 Buddhism Faces the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities. Monasticism grew along with the Buddhist revival but often had to adapt to changing world conditions and globalization. Recruitment reflects demographics of family size and this leaves the tradition with an uncertain future.

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZnFKygFMck
Dr. Lewis Lancaster Spring Lecture 2015 Series: Lecture 3, "Challenges of Contemporary Followers: Growth of Urban Society".
 
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwckrMfKozQ
 "Meditation and Mindfulness Practices in Daily Expressions", by Dr. Lewis Lancaster. Videotaped a Hsi Lai Temple.

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovhtQZrxKsk
Lecture 5: "Maintaining Existing Buddhist Structural Developments. "Spring 2015 Lecture Series on the challenges and opportunities faced by Buddhism in the 21st century.

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvHg7crJDNA
"Catching Glimpses of 21st Century Buddhism". Filmed at Hsi Lai Temple. The seeds for the future of 21st century Buddhism are already with us. The question is how to spot those elements that will develop into the tradition over the rest of this century. Changes are inevitable and largely predictable.

BBC Radio Programs on issues involving Buddhism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038c0f6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052gz7m

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01457qc

BBC Radio Programs on issues involving Buddhism

Buddhism and Violence

Buddhism, Therapy, Violence, Rationality

Buddhism and Islam

Funeral Chanting- Theravada Buddhism-Pali-Abhayagiri Monastics chanting text

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Funeral Chanting- Theravada Buddhism-Pali-Abhayagiri Monastics chanting text

Published on Mar 26, 2015

Funeral Chanting- Theravada Buddhism-Pali-Abhayagiri Monastics chanting text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bek7DCXtV8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPddV5RSo50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PsrJqnGZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L5DHgStZdI

Dalai Lama - Opening the Eye of New Awareness - Audiobook 

Published on Jan 8, 2015

Dalai Lama - Opening the Eye of New Awareness - Audiobook (1 of 4)

Opening the Eye of New Awareness is a succinct, thorough overview of the doctrines of Buddhism as they have been practiced for a thousand years in Tibet. The Dalai Lama here discusses the need for religious practice and the importance of kindness and compassion. Originally written for Tibetan lay people, this was the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy to appear in English, and Prof. Lopez's new introduction places these teachings in their proper historical context. This is an invaluable handbook for both personal use and academic study of the Buddhist path.

"Written for both Tibetan and Western readers, Opening the Eye of New Awareness is the Dalai Lama's first religious work. It is not an edited transcript of public lectures, but is His Holliness' own summation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Completed in 1963, just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education, it is a work of consummate scholarship by a twenty-seven year-old geshe, wise beyond his years. Nowhere in his many subsequent works does one find a more clear and concise exposition of the essentials of Buddhist thought. Indeed, all of His Holinesss's many publications are in some sense commentaries on this first book."

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HH Dalai Lama: How to see yourself as you really are, 1-6, audiobook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rk-FtazWBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDdLBgpfouU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYRBzsK4EG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5n94NTPW6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAk2DZqBt60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSaTUMO63Xg

HH Dalai Lama: How to see yourself as you really are, 1-6, audiobook

Published on Jan 9, 2015

Dalai Lama - How to See Yourself as You Really Are (1 of 6) Audio book

According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal is self-knowledge. In How to See Yourself As You Really Are, the world's foremost Buddhist leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize shows readers how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic -- and loving -- perspective. Through illuminating explanations and step-by-step exercises, His Holiness helps readers to see the world as it actually exists, and explains how, through the interconnection of meditative concentration and love, true altruistic enlightenment is attained.

Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama's own life experiences, How to See Yourself As You Really Are is an inspirational and empowering guide that can be read and enjoyed by anyone seeking spiritual fulfillment.

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HH Dalai Lama : The Art of Happines, 1-3, audiobook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBHEmli4oNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutr2D2rJiY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7u7qmCz0MI

HH Dalai Lama : The Art of Happines, 1-3, audiobook

Published on Mar 15, 2015

Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least he's smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, the Nobel Prize winner, and increasingly popular speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending just a few minutes in his presence you can't help feeling just a little bit happier.
The Dalai Lama is probably one of the only people in the world who if you ask him if he's happy, even though he's suffered the loss of his country, will give you an unconditional "yes." What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that "the very motion of our life is towards happiness." How to get them has always been the question. He's tried to answer it before, but he's never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand.
Through meditations, stories and the meeting of Buddhism and psychology, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, or just an ordinary bad mood. He discusses relationships, health, family, work, and spirituality to show us how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense, The Art of Happiness is an audiobook that crosses the boundaries of all traditions to help listeners with the difficulties common to all human beings.
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Andrew Holecek - The Now and Future of Buddhism

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Andrew Holecek - The Now and Future of Buddhism 

 Published on Feb 28, 2015

Andrew Holecek discusses 12 important considerations for the future of Buddhism.

From the Fourth Turning Media Program: http://fourthturningbuddhism.com/prog...

BG 352: Buddhism Unbundled

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BG 352: Buddhism Unbundled

Published on Feb 18, 2015

Vincent Horn is a mind hacker & Buddhist geek. In this keynote from the 2014 Buddhist Geeks Conference Vincent explores the unbundling of components like meditation and mindfulness from contemporary Buddhism. He then explores the process of re-bundling and what the future of both Buddhist and Buddhist-inspired models may look like as new combinations of knowledge come together in novel, and sometimes timeless, ways.

In The Wake Of The Charlie Hebdo Attack, This Buddhist Teacher Is Advocating For 'Responsible Speech'

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In The Wake Of The Charlie Hebdo Attack, This Buddhist Teacher Is Advocating For 'Responsible Speech'

HuffPost Live 

“Religion and Memory”, an interview with Alexandra Grieser

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religion-and-memory-an-interview-with-alexandra-grieser/

“Religion and Memory”, an interview with Alexandra Grieser

 The Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions’ 3rd Annual Conference centred on the topic of “Religion and Remembering”, and while at this conference Chris has the pleasure of speaking with Professor Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin) on this intriguing topic.

Interview